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Noises Off artwork. Image shows the title as props on a stage with a red curtain in the background. The title is made of large letters with dressing room-style lights inside the letters. Two people can be seen from the waist down. One of the people has their trousers round their ankles and the other is wearing fishnets and heels. Various items are dotted around in a chaotic manner, including roses, alcohol, fish, and a cactus.
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Noises Off Cast Announcement

The full cast for the 40th anniversary production of Michael’s Frayn’s multi award-winning farce, Noises Off, is announced today (Thu 27 Jul). The play will open at Birmingham Rep on Wed 23 Aug for three weeks following a sell-out West End season at the Phoenix Theatre earlier this year.

Headshots of Simon Shepherd, Liza Goddard and Matthew Kelly. Matthew Kelly has a white stubbly beard. Liza Goddard has short blonde bobbed hair. Simon Sheppard is wearing a long blue shirt.

Matthew Kelly will be playing Selsdon Mowbray, Simon Shepherd will be playing Lloyd Dallas, and Liza Goddard will be playing Dotty Otley.

Directed by Lindsay Posner, the production will star Liza Goddard as Dotty Otley, Matthew Kelly as Selsdon Mowbray and Simon Shepherd as Lloyd Dallas. They will be joined by Simon Coates as Frederick Fellowes, Lucy Robinson as Belinda Blair, Daniel Rainford as Tim Allgood, Dan Fredenburgh as Garry Lejeune, Lisa Ambalavanar as Brooke Ashton and Nikhita Lesler as Poppy Norton-Taylor.

 

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Headshot Dan Fredenburgh. He is a man with a stubble.

Dan Fredenburgh will be playing Garry Lejeune

Headshot of Daniel Rainford . He is a man with brown hair.

Daniel Rainford will be playing Tim Allgood

Headshot of Lisa Ambalavanar. She has dark long wavy hair.

Lisa Ambalavanar will be playing Brooke Ashton

Headshot of Lucy Robinson Spot. She is blonde and has her hair in a bob.

Lucy Robinson will be playing Belinda Blair

Headshot of Nikhita Lesler. She has shoulder length straight brown hair.

Nikhita Lesler will be playing Poppy Norton-Taylor

Headshot of Simon Coates. He is a man with a white and brown beard.

Simon Coates will be playing Frederick Fellowes

One of the greatest British comedies ever written, Michael Frayn’s celebrated play serves up a riotous double bill, a play within a play. Hurtling along at breakneck speed, Noises Off follows the on and off-stage antics of a theatre company as they stumble their way through a tour of the fictional farce, ‘Nothing On’.

Liza Goddard’s extensive stage comedy credits include Life of Riley, Communicating Doors, Season’s Greetings and Relatively Speaking. Matthew Kelly won the Olivier Award for The Rep’s production of the classic Of Mice and Men and his West End credits include Waiting for Godot, Comedians and Troilus and Cressida. Simon Shepherd’s many stage and TV credits include Peak Practice and West End productions of Posh, The Duck House, Rapture, Art and Hay Fever.

Hailed as the master of farce comedy, multi award-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn has inspired a generation of comedies since his production of Noises Off first opened in 1982. Now considered a comedy classic, Frayn’s legendary play has enjoyed worldwide success, including five productions in the West End and three on Broadway.

 

The full creative team includes playwright and novelist Michael Frayn, director Lindsay Posner, designer Simon Higlett, lighting designer Paul Pyant, sound designer Greg Clarke, Composer Will Stuart, movement and fight director Ruth Cooper-Brown and casting director Ginny Schiller.

A production by Theatre Royal Bath Productions. Noises Off runs at The Rep from Wed 23 Aug till Sat 9 Sep.

 

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